Pixel Bending Magic or an Oil Painting?

I’d like to think and perhaps even fantasize that I could do an oil painting such as this.  The detail, the curves, the way the wheat just speaks to you in riddles about autumn and peace.  Well truth be told this is a photo of this scene on the side of the road and I did some pixel bending magic from photoshop to make it the way it is.  Cheating? perhaps, but I think even Monet and Van Gough would think its cool then immediately slap me across the face.  I have a long time ahead of me before my photos begin to look like a Monet impressionist painting, but I would like to hope that the day is out there in the future some time.